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trdl23 posted...

Logience posted...

Except isnt Golden Sun just, well...shit?

Nope. The Lost Age is still among my favorite RPGs.

Same. It's by no means perfect, but much like Pokmon RBY, its imperfections are charming. (By which I mean the fact that its RNG is mad exploitable, allowing for there to be tutorials on guaranteeing yourself rare drops. Man that's fun.)

The only real complaint I have about the first two games is that they are two games and not one. It's exactly the type of money-grubbing that Ulti always rails against.

The third game was a disappointment, because it has a stupidly hard difficulty spike, a stupidly easy way to overlevel for the bonus bosses right in front of the final boss's fight, and points of no return, which the first two games pointedly lacked.

To illustrate the importance of being able to backtrack to any point in the game, I actually found myself unable to reach the Dullahan fight on my first Lost Age save file, despite having Broken Seal transfer data. Do you know why that was? It was because I originally got stumped by the invisible floor puzzle at the end of Fuchin Temple, and instead used trial-and-error to stumble through Mogall Forest. And the Orb of Force is entirely optional in Broken Seal, or even to getting all 28 Djinn in that game, but failure to transfer it over to Lost Age will screw you out of at least one Djinni. I made sure to take my Broken Seal save file and backtrack to get the Orb of Force rather than starting a brand new game.

(Yes, I used the Japanese subtitle because the first game lacked one in America.)
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Wait, I really left BKSheikah in my sig all the way until Advokaiser dethroned him as reigning Guru champion? I need to come here more often.